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In Love With Writing

In Elizabeth Berg's wonderful book, Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True, she says, "What you have to be is in love. With writing. Not with ideas about what to write; not with daydreams about what you're going to do when you're successful. You have to be in love with writing itself, with the solitary and satisfying act of sitting down and watching something you hold in your head and your heart quietly transform itself into words on a page." It must be love - I can't seem to get enough of it!

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Monday, May 14, 2012

A Good Blog Goes Home to Jesus

I’ve been one of a group of bloggers for the Southern
Authors Blog, “A Good Blog is Hard to Find,” since March of 2010. Founded by
Karin Gillespie, and later administered by Kathy Patrick
and then Man Martin,
A Good Blog has been serving up front-porch-style conversations about good
Southern literature for several years now. Recently a number of the contributors have had to bow out due to their busy (and successful!) schedules. I think it took the rest of us a little longer to realize that it's quitting time. Sadly, A Good Blog is singing its swan song
with a final post by Man Martin: